On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
Surely Samba is normally used during migration.
I don't think so. Some substitute win32 servers for free unix servers, but remain with win32 clients because of the "habituation" caused by Word and a dumb GUI. Some even use free unix servers without the knowledge of the
I must stress that it's not just habituation, it's network lock-in. Not only is there an installed base of people who grok Windows (and therefore a large, distributed cost in switching over to GNU/Linux or any other system), there is the problem that people use Windows because it interoperates with what they think is going to be the most widely-used system (namely Windows). It's entirely rational for people to behave this way.
Either you have to interoperate perfectly with Windows (nigh-on impossible as Microsoft keeps changing the specifications), or you have to change the perception that it's going to be the dominant system in the future.
Mk